About 25 students from St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict say they were turned away from communion because they were wearing rainbow buttons that indication membership in, or solidarity with a gay and lesbian student group.
Archbishop John Nienstedt of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, led a student mass at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN, on Sept. 26, and offered the students a sign of the cross over their heads, but refused to grant them Eucharist.
He took one look at that pin and it felt like he was saying, ‘you are not worthy of receiving Jesus,’” Elizabeth Gleich, a member of the student group PRiSM (People Representing the Sexual Minority), told the student newspaper, The Record.
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